Conductor-cable support.



W. F. MESCHBNMOSER. CONDUCTOR CABLE SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 22, 1911.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

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a@ 4W. @idw WILLIAM F. MESCHENMOSER, OI' NEW IQORP, NEW YORK.

CONDUCTOR-CABLE SUPPORT. r

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented N ov. 24, 1914.

' Application led November 22, 1911. Serial No. 661,658.

To all whom it may conceim Be it known tliat I, WILLiAM F. Musei-IEN- Mosnii, a citizen of the United States, and, a resident of New Dorp, in the county of Richmond and State of New York, have invented' certain new and useful Improvements in Conductor Cable Supports, of which the following is a specification.v

.My present invention relates to cable supports for electric wiring systems. f'

In large buildings, heavy trunk line cables are provided which cables usually run vertically from the top to the bottom of the building through protecting conduits or pipes and owing to their great length combined with their size and weight it is required that they be supported in the conduitsw or pipes at certain intervals throughouty their length and that each cable be supported independently.

The object of this inventiony is to provide a device for supporting the cables that will take care of any desired number of separate cables without becoming bulky and cumbersome. f l

Another objectv is to provide a device which can be quickly and simply applied to the cables and which will effectively support them at any desired points; it being the further object to obviate the use of clamps einploying clamping screws, the latter being too slow and cumbersome.

The invention consists in the improved cable support for electric conduits hereinafter more particularly described and then Ispecified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical section 'through a device constructed in accordance with this invention and shows the same as applied to a conduit carrying three cables. Fig. 2 is a side elevation and partial section of the saine. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3, 3 Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a detached perspective view of the partition preferably used with the device when but two cables are to besupported.

Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view of one of the cable gripping bushings. Fig. 6 is a cross-section through the housing illustrating a modification in the manner of supporting the partition.

In the drawings, l indicates the protecting and inclosing conduit or pipe which usually runs the height of the buildingand through which the cables 2 pass. Instead.

sliding the sleeve 5 of being continuous the conduit isl interrupted at the points at which it is desired to support the cable so that the complete conduit is made up of a number of compara- -tively short lengths of pipe united by housings or bushings 3 in which are located the cable supporting devices to be presently described, the end of a length of pipe l being threaded and terminating in the housing or bushing 3./ It will be understood that there are a number of these housings throughout the length'of the conduit, but it is considered that for thepurposeof illustrating the invention it will be suiicient to show but one.

'I he housing or bushing 3 might be of any desired andvsuitable construction and when of the form shown`is provided with a longitudinal passage therethrough of a diameter at leastfequal to the inner diameter of the pipe 1. One or more openings l are provided in the side of the housing to permit access to the interior thereof and the insertion of the cable supporting devices. Normally the openings -l are closed by a sleeve 5 which slipstloosely over the housing and rests on an annular ledge 6 formed on the lower part of the housing. By merely upward the openings 4r. are exposed and when released it immediately drops back on the ledge 6 and closes `the openings in the housingithus providing individual cables 4'be supported independent Aof each^other 'at various intervals throughout the length of the conduit. In the form illustrated in Figs. l to 3 inclusive, three separate cables or conductors are shown. After the cables are pulled through the conduit the requiredamount; the portions of the V'cables in the housing 3 are separated by access through the openings 4. p

7 indicates bushings or sleeves preferably of insulating material and preferably divided longitudinally into two parts. The

`bushings are provided with serrated inner surfaces formed in any desired manner to provide teeth or projections for biting into the insulating covering of the cables. Each segment of the bushings is preferably slit as at 8 to permit the sides of the bushing to yield. The outer periphery of the bushing 1s inclined as shown. One of the bushings is applied to each conductor throu h the opening 4 in an obvious manner. o support the cables the bushings are seated in tapered openings formed in a plate or partition 9 inserted in the housing 3. As above stated it being required to first pull the cables through the conduit the plate or partition 9 is preferably made removable and to readily apply it to the bushings and cables without the necessity of threading the cables through the partition, the partition is made of a number of segments, the number depending upon the number and arrangement of conductors to be supported.

When three conductors are to be supported the partition is divided into three segments along radial lines through the openings provided for the bushings 8. The outer periphery of the partition is preferably tapered and seats in a similarly ta ered shoulder 10 formed on the inner wal of a continuous part of the housing 3 so that the pull on the cable will maintain it in place. If desired the outer periphery of the partition may be vertical and the partition be supported on lugs or seats 15 secured to the housing or bushingi as illustrated in Fig. 6. The parts of the partition are inserted through the opening 1, placed around the A cables and seated on the tapered surface 10.

By assembling the parts as shown and described any pull downward on the conductors will merely cause them to bind tighter in their supports while they can be readily unclamped by merely pulling up on the cable. p

It will be noted that any number of cables or conductors can be separately supported in one conduit by this device and thus the necessity of providing an entirely separate support for each separate cable is dispensed with whereby the cost of material alone in an installation is greatly reduced and the facility with which the cables can be clamped and unclamped in their supports is much increased over the use of clamps operated by. clamping screws or the like. Vhen but two separate cables or conductors are employed, the form of partition shown .in Fig. 4 is employed, which partition is merely divided diametrically on the line 11 into two arts.

.p It will be understood that I do not limit myselfto the exact details of construction shown and described but various modifications might be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

' What I claim as my invention is:

1. A cable support comprising a ipe or conduit, a bushing secured to the endpof the pipe, a removable plate or partition divided into a plurality of parts and transversely disposed in said bushing and having an opening through which the cable passes and a bushing having a serrated surface engaging the sides of the cable, said latter-named bushing being provided with tapered sides itting into the opening in said plate or partition.

2. A cable support comprising a pipe or conduit, a bushing secured to the end of said pipe, a removable partition transversely seated in said bushing and having openings throughwhich the cables pass, said partition being divided diametrically through said openings and bushings provided with inwardly disposed projections engaging the sides of the cable, said latter-named bushings having tapered sides fitting into the openings in said partition.

3. A cable support comprising a housing having an opening in the side through which access may be had to the interior of the case, means at the ends of said housing for securing the ends of alined pipes or conduits, a plurality of longitudinally divided bushings having inwardly disposed projections adapted to engage the sides of the cables and provided with tapered yielding sides, means within said housing for supporting the tapered sides of said bushings and a sleeve adapted to slide over the outside of the housing and to close the opening in the side thereof.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 21st day of November A. D. 1911.

WILLIAM F. MESCHENMOSER.

Witnesses:

ADoLF SCHMINCKE, F. B.'TowNsEND. 

